harzack

This design is based on a poem by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, a famous 19th century Spanish poet who wrote "Rhymes and Legends" on which is the poem. Below I show the translated poem and a link to the original.

RHYME IV
Do not say that, exhausted of its treasure, there is
lack of subject matter to silence poetry;
we may not have poets; but there will always be
poetry.
As long as the kiss ignites the heart with
waves of light,
as long as the sun dresses the torn clouds
with fire and gold,
as long the air carries perfumes and
harmonies in its lap,
as long there is spring in the world,
There will be poetry!
As long as science does not discover
the origins of life,
and in the sea or in the heaven there is an abyss
that cannot be calculated;
as long as the always advancing humanity
does not know where it's heading;
as long as there is a mystery for man,
There will be poetry!
As long as we feel that the soul rejoices,
without the lips laughing;
as long as we can cry without the tears
blurring our vision;
as long as the heart and the brain
continue struggling;
as long as there is hope and remembrances,
There will be poetry!
As long as there are eyes that reflect
the eyes that look at them,
as long as the lip responds sighing
to the lip that sighs,
as long as two confused souls can
in a kiss feel themselves,
as long as there is a beautiful woman,
There will be poetry!
Original:
http://www.poesi.as/gabrim04.htm

ibaitxo

tarmawolf

"The Nameless City" is a horror story written by H. P. Lovecraft in January 1921 and first published in the November 1921 issue of the amateur press journal The Wolverine. It is often considered the first Cthulhu Mythos story.

packrat011

bairdmandust

tarmawolf wrote:"The Nameless City" is a horror story written by H. P. Lovecraft in January 1921 and first published in the November 1921 issue of the amateur press journal The Wolverine. It is often considered the first Cthulhu Mythos story.

This is a freaking AWESOME shirt, but it's not a poem.

I'm glad you like my shirt and are a fellow Lovecraft fan.

The shirt refers to these specific few lines of poetry found in "The Nameless City", and not to the entire story itself. From Wikipedia: The protagonist of "The Nameless City" states that "it was of this place that Abdul Alhazred the mad poet dreamed of" the night before he sang his unexplained couplet: "That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die."

Some of my favorite poems are found tucked away within larger literary works rather standing alone, from stories like The Hobbit and The Jungle Book.

dijay

SteveBook

I am tired of wallowing
in this mud and my own hide.
If I were a poet
and not a hippopotamus
I could be anything I wanted.
A gazelle, for instance.
The word springs from my mouth,
grows graceful
legs and muscles:
gazelle, gazelle
it dances on its syllables.
Excited by flies,
I waddle over to my thick wife,
full of the secrets of poetry.

samandliz09

colinlepper

bluesplot wrote:Love you design, it's just beautiful.
By the way, Cummings NEVER gave titles to his work; so they're all cataloged by the first line of each poem.

Yup That would explain it lol, I have seen some poems with names of his, guess I never realized it was just the first line used a title =P also explains why it was so hard to find the full poem and not just the individual quote

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